--- title: "Divorce and marriage rates by state (data)" url: https://probativegrowth.com/data/marriage-divorce/ lang: en-US alternate: https://probativegrowth.com/es/datos/matrimonios-y-divorcios/ source: the same page, converted from its HTML at build time --- 1. [Home](https://probativegrowth.com/) 2. [Data](https://probativegrowth.com/data/) 3. Divorce and marriage Data · Divorce and marriage # Divorce and marriage rates by state How often people divorce and marry in each state, per 1,000 residents, every year since 2000, and how many divorces happen nationally each year. The figures are the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' own, from the counts state health departments send it. Divorce records cover the states that report divorces to NCHS: 45 states and DC in 2024. Checked October 30, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Not legal advice ## What is in this dataset? {#what-h} Divorce rates (divorces and annulments per 1,000 residents, by state of occurrence) and marriage rates for every state that reports them to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, for 1990, 1995 and each year 2000 to 2024, with each reporting state's latest rate, its 2019 rate and its rate in 2000 (or its first reported year after 2000) and the change since; and the national provisional counts of divorces and marriages each year since 2000, with the states the national divorce count leaves out. Rates and counts only, as NCHS publishes them. Use it to size divorce and family-law demand by state: where divorce is most common per resident, how fast it has fallen since 2000 and how many divorces happen nationally each year, beside the divorced residents and county detail in the legal-need dataset. Agents can look up a state, compare states, or search by state name or year. **Records** 99 **Look up by** 52 state **Primary-source records** 99 The letters are explained in [what P, S, D and U mean](https://probativegrowth.com/data/#status-codes). ## Where does the data come from? {#from-h} NCHS publishes three small workbooks: divorce rates and marriage rates by state for 1990, 1995 and 2000 onward, and the national provisional counts with their populations and rates. All three are read in full and only the rates NCHS prints are kept, as published. A gate checks that each year's national exclusion note names exactly the states without a rate, recomputes the national counts from the state rates and Census populations, re-downloads the files and re-reads 30 random cells. **Period covered** 1990 to 2024 **Places** The whole US, all 50 states and DC **How often we refresh it** Once a year **Records read** October 30, 2026 ### Official sources - [CDC National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage-divorce.htm), by bulk download. A work of the U.S. government (17 U.S.C. 105), published as public files on cdc.gov with no login or access restriction. ### The sources the records cite most - [CDC National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System: marriage rates by state](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/state-marriage-rates-90-95-00-24.xlsx): 51 records - [CDC National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System: divorce rates by state](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/state-divorce-rates-90-95-00-24.xlsx): 46 records - [CDC NCHS, National Vital Statistics System: provisional number of divorces and annulments and rate, United States](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/national-marriage-divorce-rates-00-24.xlsx): 1 record - [CDC NCHS, National Vital Statistics System: provisional number of marriages and rate, United States](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/national-marriage-divorce-rates-00-24.xlsx): 1 record ## What does a record look like? {#sample-h} Texas, 2024: 1.9 divorces and annulments per 1,000 residents (NCHS); 2.1 in 2019 and 4.0 in 2000. Status P · checked October 30, 2026 · source: [CDC National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System: divorce rates by state](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/state-divorce-rates-90-95-00-24.xlsx) Florida, 2024: 2.8 divorces and annulments per 1,000 residents (NCHS); 3.5 in 2019 and 5.1 in 2000. Status P · checked October 30, 2026 · source: [CDC National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System: divorce rates by state](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/state-divorce-rates-90-95-00-24.xlsx) United States, 2024: 662,950 divorces and annulments reported to NCHS, 2.3 per 1,000 residents of the 45 states and DC that report them; 4.0 per 1,000 in 2000. Status P · checked October 30, 2026 · source: [CDC NCHS, National Vital Statistics System: provisional number of divorces and annulments and rate, United States](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/national-marriage-divorce-rates-00-24.xlsx) The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below. **What each of the 18 main columns means** **`jurisdiction`** Two-letter state code (50 states and DC), or US **`level`** us or state **`kind`** divorce (divorces and annulments) or marriage **`stateName`** State name (United States on the national records) **`year`** The latest year of the NCHS table (states without a rate that year have no record of that kind) **`status`** P: the NCHS figure as published **`value`** The rate in that year (the same as rate) **`rate`** Per 1,000 residents in the latest year **`rate_2019`** Per 1,000 residents in 2019 **`years_published`** How many years have a published rate (1990, 1995 and 2000 onward for states; 2000 onward for the US) **`years`** Rate per year, every published year **`count`** National records only: provisional number of divorces and annulments, or of marriages, in the latest year **`counts`** National records only: the provisional number per year **`population`** National records only: the population of the reporting area NCHS used for the rate **`base_year`** The first year from 2000 on with a published rate (2000 for most states) **`rate_base`** Per 1,000 residents in base_year **`change_since_base`** rate minus rate_base **`reporting_places`** National records only: how many states (and DC) reported in the latest year, the area the national count and rate cover ## How do I use it in my own tools? {#api-h} Ask an AI assistant: add `https://probativegrowth.com/mcp/marriage-divorce` as an MCP connector (no sign-in), or the main server `https://probativegrowth.com/mcp` for every dataset. Setup for each app is on [the API and MCP page](https://probativegrowth.com/resources/rules-api/). **`marriagedivorce_lookup`** For one two-letter state code (or US): the divorce rate and the marriage rate per 1,000 residents in the latest year, 2019 and 2000, and every year since 1990 (national counts for US). **`marriagedivorce_compare`** The divorce and marriage records of up to 10 states (or US) side by side. **`marriagedivorce_search`** Records whose text matches the words given, such as "divorce Texas", a state name or a year. Or read the static files, with no key and no usage cap: - [Index and endpoints](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/index.json) `/data/v1/marriage-divorce/index.json` - [One state (AK shown)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/jurisdictions/AK.json) `/data/v1/marriage-divorce/jurisdictions/{jurisdiction}.json` - [Confirmed changes](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/changes.json) `/data/v1/marriage-divorce/changes.json` - [OpenAPI description](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/openapi.json) `/data/v1/marriage-divorce/openapi.json` - [API reference, every file](https://probativegrowth.com/resources/rules-api/reference/) `/resources/rules-api/reference/` ## How to cite this dataset {#cite-h} You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source. **Version** 1.0.0, released October 31, 2026 **DOI** [10.5281/zenodo.23845898](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23845898) **Every version** [10.5281/zenodo.23845897](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23845897) (always points to the newest) **License** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Download the data - [CSV: marriage-divorce.csv](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/marriage-divorce.csv) 46 KB · one row per record (columns in README.txt) - [JSON: marriage-divorce.json](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/marriage-divorce.json) 142 KB · every record with its sources Free, no email or login. The files are hosted on this site and [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/23845898), a public research archive. Suggested citation Probative. (2026). Marriage and divorce rates by state (CDC NCHS), 1990 to 2024 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23845898 Credit line for a chart, table or article Source: Probative, Marriage and divorce rates by state (CDC NCHS), 1990 to 2024, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23845898, licensed CC BY 4.0. Add to a reference manager (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote) - [RIS (EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/cite.ris) - [BibTeX (LaTeX)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/cite.bib) - [CITATION.cff (GitHub, Zenodo)](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/CITATION.cff) - [codemeta.json](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/codemeta.json) - [SVG badge with the DOI](https://probativegrowth.com/data/badge/marriage-divorce.svg) Not legal advice. These are provisional counts that state health departments send to NCHS, turned into rates per 1,000 residents. Divorce figures include annulments and, for some counties or states, petitions filed or legal separations. Divorce records cover the states that report divorces to NCHS: 45 states and DC in 2024. ## What changed recently? {#chg-h} - **2026-10-30** · NCHS divorce rates for 45 states and DC and marriage rates for 50 states and DC, 1990 to 2024, and the national counts: in 2024 662,950 divorces and annulments were reported (2.3 per 1,000 residents in the reporting states) and 2,128,446 marriages (6.3 per 1,000). ([source](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage-divorce.htm)) The full log is in [changes.json](https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/marriage-divorce/changes.json). ## What are the limits? {#limits-h} - Divorce figures include annulments and, for some counties or states, petitions filed or legal separations, as NCHS notes. - A divorce is counted in the state where it is granted, which may differ from where the couple lived. - Divorce figures cover the 45 states and DC that report divorces to NCHS, and the national divorce count and rate cover the same states. - The counts are provisional; NCHS revises earlier years when states send corrections. - Records older than 400 days since their last check are marked `stale` in the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the [data corrections log](https://probativegrowth.com/data/corrections/). **Not legal advice.** These are provisional counts that state health departments send to NCHS, turned into rates per 1,000 residents. Divorce figures include annulments and, for some counties or states, petitions filed or legal separations. Divorce records cover the states that report divorces to NCHS: 45 states and DC in 2024. Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm. Found a wrong value? [Report an error](https://probativegrowth.com/data/corrections/#report) with the record id and the source that shows the right value. 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